Gene Miller is a first-time author, but a 44-year public educator. His book, WARNING: Short Stories for Middle School Boys Only, Because Girls Have Cooties! was inspired by his two oldest grandsons approaching their middle school years. The thoughts of his grandsons growing up before his eyes and entering the middle school years caused old memories of Miller's adventurous middle school years to flood back into his memories. Miller grew up along the banks of the Delaware River in the small town of Delanco on the South Jersey side of the Delaware River, approximately 15 miles north of Philadelphia.

The collection of 15 nostalgic, time-capsule stories from 1965-1970 capture the period of growing up without the internet, computers, cable & streaming television, Xbox, and Tic Tock. Kirkus has catalogued this collection as Adult Nonfiction/Memoir, yet because it was written for middle schoolers, it contains a back section of Chapter Lessons that individually introduce New Vocabulary terms, Root words, Suffixes, Critical Thinking Skills, Writing Prompts and Cross Curricular Research ideas to personalize each stand-alone short story to the reader.

In 1981, he married his lovely wife, Maria, and had three children. He received a M.A. in Educational Leadership from Rowan University in 1997 and became assistant principal to Hammonton High School in the town of Hammonton known as "The Blueberry Capital of the World." Two years later he became principal of the Hammonton Middle School where he helped with his faculty to successfully educate middle school children for the next 14 years.
After 35 years in public education, Miller retired to take an adjunct position at Stockton University. There, he was in the School of Education supervising student teachers' placements from grades 1-12. The next year he was requested to design a course entitled Human Geography and taught until his final retirement in May of 2023.

Miller knows children. He has dedicated his life to them and has brought his neighborhood friends and associates back to life. He also knows learning and especially middle school adolescents. His book is not only a humorous and at times, dangerous collection of childhood adventures, it has been described as having "the mischief of Tom Sawyer, the nostalgia of Stand by Me, and the exuberance of The Sandlot." It transports its readers back to a simpler time. Back in the day kids would leave the house to play on their own, then return home by six o'clock for dinner. Children played their own games, explored their world, discovered their own adventures and made their own rules. WARNING: Short Stories for Middle School Boys Only, Because Girls Have Cooties conveys its readers the delight of an uncomplicated time that has now long passed.

Some readers on Amazon Books and Barnes & Noble have commented that it would make a great streaming series for television. Miller is open to delivering his childhood stories from adolescence to all readers interested in this "Time Before Technology."

“A remembrance that's full of delightful nostalgic turns." Kirkus Reviews”
– Kirkus Reviews